Mary Astor
Age: N/A | From: Quincy, Illinois, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Μαίρη Άστορ , Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Quincy, Illinois, USA
Homepage: http://themaryastorcollection.com/
Movie Involvements: 90
TV Involvements: 19
Most Famous Work
Biography
Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 - September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s. She was sued for support by her parents and was later branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband during a custody fight over her daughter. Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, Astor went on to even greater success on the screen, eventually winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Sandra Kovak in The Great Lie (1941). She was an MGM contract player through most of the 1940s and continued to act in movies, on television and on stage until her retirement from the screen in 1964. Astor was the author of five novels. Her autobiography became a bestseller, as did her later book, A Life on Film, which was specifically about her career. Director Lindsay Anderson wrote of her in 1990: "...(W)hen two or three who love the cinema are gathered together, the name of Mary Astor always comes up, and everybody agrees that she was an actress of special attraction, whose qualities of depth and reality always seemed to illuminate the parts she played." Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary Astor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
Robert Montgomery Presents
(1950) Norma Desmond
Studio One
(1948) Harriet Brand
Burke's Law
(1963) Florence Roberts
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(1956) Sarah Simmons
The United States Steel Hour
(1953) Isabelle Lagarde
Climax!
(1954) Clarissa Bowman
Dr. Kildare
(1961) Aunt Frances
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(1955) Grace DolanActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1997 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1980 | Self | |
| 1976 | (archive footage) | |
| 1973 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1964 | Jewel Mayhew | |
| Irene Perry | ||
| 1963 | Florence Roberts | |
| 1961 | N/A | |
| Martha Lantzinge | ||
| Aunt Frances | ||
| Flora Goode | ||
| Mrs. Roberta Carter | ||
| 1960 | Esther Brack | |
| Rose French | ||
| Mrs. Leslie | ||
| 1959 | Virgilnie Beasley | |
| Emma Cardwell | ||
| 1958 | Mrs. Tremaine | |
| 1957 | Mrs. Jargin | |
| N/A | ||
| 1956 | Sarah Simmons | |
| Mrs. George Salt | ||
| Mrs. Corliss | ||
| 1955 | N/A | |
| Mrs. Fenimore | ||
| Grace Dolan | ||
| Isabelle Lagarde | ||
| 1954 | Nancy Blake | |
| Mrs. Harriss | ||
| Ethel Allen | ||
| Martha | ||
| Clarissa Bowman | ||
| 1953 | (archive footage) | |
| Isabelle Lagarde | ||
| Bea Hicks | ||
| 1950 | Margaret Eliot | |
| Mildred Le Brun | ||
| Norma Desmond | ||
| 1949 | Ada | |
| Marmee | ||
| Pat | ||
| 1948 | Ruth Sparling | |
| Harriet Brand | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1947 | Queenie Havock | |
| Louise Bishop | ||
| Fritzi Haller | ||
| Señora Morales | ||
| 1946 | Adriana (archive footage) | |
| Elizabeth Van Doren | ||
| 1944 | Delilah Donay | |
| Anna Smith | ||
| 1943 | Hyllary Jones | |
| Josephine Evans | ||
| 1942 | Alberta Marlow | |
| The Princess Centimillia | ||
| 1941 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Brigid O'Shaughnessy | ||
| Sandra Kovak | ||
| 1940 | Mary Ann Young | |
| Marion Manning | ||
| 1939 | Helene Flammarion | |
| 1938 | Dottie Wingate | |
| Cynthia Holland | ||
| Mrs. Irene Mallebre | ||
| Lola Fraser | ||
| Kay McGowan | ||
| 1937 | Mme. DeLaage | |
| Antoinette de Mauban | ||
| 1936 | Polly Dunlap | |
| Edith Cortright | ||
| Barbara 'Bobby' Blake | ||
| Edith Farnham | ||
| Lillian Cooper | ||
| 1935 | Vida | |
| Gladys | ||
| Martha Daniels | ||
| Marian Henshaw | ||
| Patricia Sanford | ||
| 1934 | Odette Mauclair | |
| Self | ||
| Bessie Foley | ||
| Jessica Wells | ||
| Olga Morgan | ||
| Hettie Stream | ||
| Charlotte | ||
| 1933 | Arlene Dale | |
| Virginia Claffin Nordholm | ||
| Hilda Lake | ||
| Letty Pace | ||
| Ruth Wayburn | ||
| 1932 | Barbara "Babs" Willis | |
| Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton | ||
| May Ballard | ||
| Follette Marsh | ||
| 1931 | Marthe | |
| Nancy Gibson | ||
| Norma Selbee | ||
| Frisco Kitty | ||
| Mary Linden | ||
| Lily Kulper | ||
| Princess Anne | ||
| 1930 | Dona Rosita Garcia | |
| Julia Seton | ||
| Mimi Howell | ||
| Mary Gray | ||
| 1929 | Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited) | |
| Dee Renaud | ||
| Marjorie Ware | ||
| 1928 | Judith Andrews | |
| Elizabeth Quimby | ||
| Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie | ||
| Anna | ||
| Jeanne | ||
| Carol Trent | ||
| 1927 | Sally Montgomery | |
| Dolly | ||
| Elena | ||
| Mirza | ||
| Molly Gibson | ||
| Amy Cortissos | ||
| 1926 | Jennie Clayton | |
| Adriana della Varnese | ||
| Mary | ||
| Audrey Nye | ||
| 1925 | Fidele Tridon | |
| Doris | ||
| Dolores de Muro | ||
| Margo | ||
| Leonore Bewlay | ||
| Dolores Hicks | ||
| 1924 | Fay Bartholdi | |
| Alice Barrows | ||
| Undetermined Secondary Role | ||
| Helen Castle | ||
| Mary Brainard | ||
| Lady Margery Alvanley | ||
| Lucy | ||
| 1923 | Violet Lynwood | |
| Vivian Hope-Clarke | ||
| Rachel | ||
| Mary Astor | ||
| Narcissa Escobar | ||
| Rose Randolph | ||
| Polly Crawford | ||
| 1922 | Elsie Worden | |
| Young Woman | ||
| Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter | ||
| Irene Mason | ||
| Helen Seymour | ||
| Bit Part | ||
| 1921 | N/A | |
| Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid | ||
| Norah Collison | ||
| N/A | ||
| Marcia Harthorn | ||
| Bit Part | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
